Zhuangzi Quotes
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Zhuangzi Quotes & Sayings
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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
— Zhuangzi
Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.
— Zhuangzi
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
— Zhuangzi
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
— Zhuangzi
The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
— Zhuangzi
To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse ...
— Zhuangzi
If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.
— Zhuangzi
You are still guided by your expectations.
— Zhuangzi
He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.
— Zhuangzi
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
— Zhuangzi
Flow
with whatever may happen + let your mind be free.
.. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing.
.. this is the ultimate. — Zhuangzi
with whatever may happen + let your mind be free.
.. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing.
.. this is the ultimate. — Zhuangzi
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
— Zhuangzi
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
— Zhuangzi
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
— Zhuangzi
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
— Zhuangzi
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
— Zhuangzi
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
— Zhuangzi
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
— Zhuangzi
A path is made by walking on it.
— Zhuangzi
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
— Zhuangzi
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
— Zhuangzi
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
— Zhuangzi
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
— Zhuangzi
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
— Zhuangzi
Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended.
— Zhuangzi
Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly ...
— Zhuangzi
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
— Zhuangzi
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
— Zhuangzi
The sound of water says what I think.
— Zhuangzi
Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!
— Zhuangzi
Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
— Zhuangzi
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
— Zhuangzi
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
— Zhuangzi
To examine oneself makes good use of sight.
— Zhuangzi
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
— Zhuangzi
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
— Zhuangzi
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
— Zhuangzi
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
— Zhuangzi
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.
— Zhuangzi
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
— Zhuangzi
Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.
— Zhuangzi
The true man breathes with his heels.
— Zhuangzi
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
— Zhuangzi
The eyes envy the mind.
— Zhuangzi
The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.
— Zhuangzi
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
— Zhuangzi
Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.
— Zhuangzi
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
— Zhuangzi
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
— Zhuangzi
Each one's destiny cannot be altered.
— Zhuangzi
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
— Zhuangzi
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
— Zhuangzi
In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.
— Zhuangzi
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
— Zhuangzi